Re: expat update would be good

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On 06.03.2023 00:08, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2023-03-05 13:25, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 05.03.2023 20:24, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>>> [Xpost to cygwin in case apps not monitored]
>>> On 2023-03-05 08:00, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> On 13.02.2022 21:34, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>>> [posting to apps to be less public]
>>>>> https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23990
>>>>> expat < 2.4.4
>>>
>>>> ping ?
>>>> In addition the cmake import library have some issues also
>>>
>>> Been a year since I hinted!
>>>
>>> Fixed releases build okay for me 2.4.1/5/9 up to current 2.5.0.
>>> See:
>>>
>>>      https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=5541
>>>      https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/4337543797
>>> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/4337543797/jobs/7573650090
>>>
>>> What are you seeing?
> 
>> building latest gdal I was forced to add a line on expact.c
>> $ grep private  /usr/lib/pkgconfig/expat.pc
>> Libs.private: -liconv
> 
> Do not see any need for libiconv/-devel in any expat? See attached.

I had the need building  gdal 3.6.2

> 
>> and move away
>> /usr/lib/make/expat-2.4.1
>> as the settings are wrong and cmake complains about missing files
>> $ grep -H "so.1" *.cmake
>> expat-noconfig.cmake:  IMPORTED_LOCATION_NOCONFIG 
>> "${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/lib/libexpat.so.1.8.1"
>> expat-noconfig.cmake:  IMPORTED_SONAME_NOCONFIG "libexpat.so.1"
>> expat-noconfig.cmake:list(APPEND _IMPORT_CHECK_FILES_FOR_expat::expat 
>> "${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/lib/libexpat.so.1.8.1" )
> 
> Fixed in 2.5.0 - see attached.
> 
>> If Doug does not reply, are you considering to adopt expat ?
> 
> No - I do not use it and do not maintain anything which uses it:
> 
> $ cygcheck-dep -qn libexpat{1,-devel} expat
>   libexpat1: is needed for ( avahi cmake dbus dbus-bash-completion 
> dri-drivers expat gdb git graphviz lftp libaprutil1 libexpat-devel 
> libfontconfig1 libgdal20 libgdal26 libgdal28 libgdal29 libgdal30 
> libgdal31 libgvc6 libwx_baseu2.8_0 perl-XML-Parser python27 python36 
> python37 python38 python39 rats subversion tcl-tcldot )
>   libexpat-devel: is needed for ( libfontconfig-devel )
>   expat: is needed for ( )
> 
> If Doug does not have time, you seem the most appropriate candidate, as 
> cmake, gdal, python maintainer, if you could manage? Or put out a CFA on 
> apps?
> 

I will likely do, but I was hoping in someone else.
I just took json-c another needed by gdal, and gdal
has a long list of dependency

> For testing your latest builds, just pull source, and change 
> VERSION=2.5.0, add LICENSE=MIT, and BUILD_REQUIRES="gettext-devel 
> docbook2X" in case the former is needed, as there are .Po files used: 
> not sure if po4a should also be added for other files?
> 

noted